Bush is above 50 percent in only six states -- Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Utah, at 61/36, is the only state above 60 percent. In May, Bush was above 50 percent in 13 states. In September, it was 10 states.

25 states are below 40 percent. Rhode Island, Vermont, and Massachusetts are all under 30 percent. Bush is 29/70 in Rhode Island.

Overall, Bush is at 38/59.

I thought it would be interesting to look at the results in terms of Bush's slippage from the 2004 election to now, so I took Bush's state by state 2004 election results, subtracted the current poll results (Bush's approval rating) and graphed the results:

The scale on the left is the amount Bush has slipped in almost a year from November of 2005 to October 2004. (The SUSA poll was released today, 10/18/05, but the poll was taken between the 14th and the 16th.) These numbers are shown in the red and blue bars (corresponding with the "red" states and the "blue" states from the election.

On the right, another scale is used for the election results (yellow triangles) and the SUSA poll approval numbers (white squares).

The second graph shows the same data, but with the states listed in order of their increasing percetage of vote for Bush:

North and South Dakota sure got wise to Bush, not to mention Kansas and ... Texas?

Update: I tweaked the graphs a little, mostly to show red and blue states -- and in doing so revealed that most of Bush's slippage is in the red states, not the blue ones. Of course, Bush's election take in some of the blue states was so low that it would be hard to get too much lower, but, still, it's pretty remarkable that he's going down in the states that are supposed to be the bastion of his base.

Update: I fixed an error where New Mexico was colored blue instead of red, and changed the triangles back to plain yellow, which looks better.

Update: Another problem fixed: due to a bad data sort, the District of Columbia (numbers for which weren't included in the SUSA poll) snuck onto the second chart, pushing Utah off the other end.

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If you read it daily, I will come to your house, kiss you on the forehead, bathe your feet, and cook pancakes for you, with yummy syrup and everything.

(You might want to keep a watch on me, though, just to avoid the syrup ending up on your feet and the pancakes on your forehead.)

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